why pray? | Course of Mirrors

Why pray? You may ask. Why not? I’d say. Prayer is communicating with the most intimate friend I can imagine, a wise friend, not concerned with temporary matters, a friend I postulate to exist outside of time and also hidden in matter, a friend who is truly connected with the only being (some call it god, I call it the one intelligence, or ‘the friend.’ Meister Eckhart and Franz von Assisi expressed it most clearly … god looks at you the way you look at god … Is there anything to lose? No. Is there anything to gain? No. Prayer is beyond loss and gain, it is a creative leap into the unknown. What you project looks back at you as from a mirror.

My experience convinces me that psychic existence prevails beyond any one physical form in space or my limited perception in time, and beyond any mirror.

Here is my favourite prayer:

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Thy Wish

Let Thy wish become my desire,

Let Thy will become my deed,

Let Thy word become my speech Beloved

And Thy love become my creed.

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Let my plant bring forth Thy flowers,

Let my fruit produce Thy seed,

Let my heart become Thy lute Beloved

And my body Thy flute of reed.